Java Architect

Finzly is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and was founded in 2012 by financial engineers whose mission is to create a modern, real-time, and responsive platform for bankers who need to break free from core limitations. Our initial success and wider adoption arrived after the introduction of our foreign exchange, trade finance, lending, digital banking, and branch banking solutions.

Finzly is on a mission to free banks from their core banking systems and core‑vendor limitations, by creating an Appstore ecosystem that empowers banks to launch new products and services instantly and easily. Finzly enables financial institutions to make smarter technology decisions while getting to market at fintech speed. Recently, Finzly has won the “Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” of 2022 and the “Best Parallel Core Technology” award at the NACHA Smarter Faster Payments Conference in 2023.

Finzly is looking for a highly motivated Senior Java Developer / Java Architect to join the team in Charlotte, NC. This role focuses on developing scalable account galaxy products, ledgering, reconciliation, and transaction orchestration systems that meet the highest standards of security, compliance, and reliability. The candidate will lead the development teams and coordinate with the other teams for successful product delivery.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands‑on expertise in Java microservices, Spring Framework, RESTful APIs, and AWS serverless architecture, with a deep understanding of secure, high‑throughput, low‑latency systems used in modern Fin Tech platforms.

We are looking for a person ready to be a part of a team that moves fast, leverages continuous delivery practices, and is based on customer experience. This position requires strong collaboration and teamwork across teams and organizational boundaries, playing a vital role in engineering services that delight the customer. The ideal candidate is a self‑motivated, multi‑tasker, and demonstrated team player.

The candidate should excel in working with large‑scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. The candidate should be excited about new technologies, innovation, and working in a startup environment.

• Architect and develop Java‑based microservices for Account Galaxy products, reconciliation, and workflows.
• Responsible for development, testing, and implementation of various banking products.
• Design and implement secure, versioned RESTful APIs for internal and external financial integrations.
• Build and maintain AWS serverless payment components using Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and idempotency in transaction flows.
• Apply Java design patterns and enterprise architecture principles to handle complex financial logic.
• Implement robust unit and integration testing using JUnit to ensure financial accuracy and system stability.
• Lead technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and code quality initiatives.
• Optimize system performance for low latency and high throughput transaction processing.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, security, and Dev Ops teams to deliver regulated financial solutions.
• Responsible for reviewing and debugging code.
• Address production issues requiring immediate attention and delivery.
• Adapt to change with ease while working with onsite and offshore teams.
• Actively guide and challenge intermediate and junior developers.
• Work independently and be able to meet strict timelines.
• Work in a fast‑paced Agile environment delivering great quality product.
• Should be uncompromising about quality and excellence.

• 10+ years of application development and implementation experience.
• Extensive hands‑on experience in Java development within Payments or Fin Tech environments.
• Extensive experience working with Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and Spring Framework.
• Experience with Messaging Middleware like Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, IBM MQ.
• Solid experience with REST API design, including authentication, authorization, and versioning.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS serverless architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Java design…